Motorbike prejudice

[AlexElther]

Hi Everyone,

I feel like I need to have a rant.
I have just been asked that I move my bike from outside the front of my work because the landlord is trying to increase the profile of the area!!!!! :gob:

I ride an 07 Fireblade and it far from untidy and I work in Addington and have to bike in or leave an extra hour early in the morning thanks the the amount of cars on the roads after the earthquake.

I am so unbelievably F'ed off. There are buggered up Holdens and Toyotas outside and my bike is BRINGING THE AREA DOWN??? pound for pound my bike cost 20x that of a s#1t company car! :angry: on top of that there is absolutely no security out the back of the building. No cameras, no lights, no people, nothing.

Seriously is this even legal? Genuinely, because it feels like prejudice.

[oldrider]

He can legally ask you anything and it shouldn't bother you a bit .... your answer on the other hand is your concern and completely under your control! :yes:

[CookMySock]

Court order de jure or contract signed by both parties, or it stays where it is. :violin:

Don't get angry. Just get, er, back to whatever it was you were doing.. :yes:

[admenk]

You could always kick the crap out of him, but that might reinforce his prejudice further :innocent:

May be better to have a grown up chat about it, pointing out your reasonable objections to him (or her)

[Bald Eagle]

Directions on how to insert to a place of no sunshine comes to mind.

[Usarka]

Spray paint the building late at night.

[javawocky]

Invite all Christchurch KB's over for breakfast and take up every parking spot.

[Maha]

I anyone turns up here on a Suzuki I ask them to put it in the garage so I can close the door.
Predudice? no, common decency

[oneofsix]

I anyone turns up here on a Suzuki I ask them to put it in the garage so I can close the door.
Predudice? no, common decency

Nice to see you rate Suzuki's so highly. :yes:

[Neon]

on top of that there is absolutely no security out the back of the building. No cameras, no lights, no people, nothing. Seriously is this even legal? Genuinely, because it feels like prejudice.

I would agree to comply, on the condition that the increased risk to your property is acknowledged and arrangements are made to provide a suitable and secure alternative.

That said, you have every right to ask your employer to please explain why he thinks it is fair and reasonable that you should relocate your vehicle when others are not. They may also think it is stupid but be under pressure to enforce it.

[avgas]

Life's a bitch then you marry one

[Maha]

Nice to see you rate Suzuki's so highly. :yes:

Dont misquote me, I dont rate them at all.

[Sparrowhawk]

I had the same problem at my old work. Prob was, there were half a dozen bikes parked out front, and 'technically' they were on the footpath (although out of the way), so we had to.

But if it's parked in a car park, nothing they can do.

I still reckon the more bikes parked outside, the better a building looks :)

[imdying]

Just say no and see what that brings.


Addington is a shit hole, it'll take more than a few bikes removed to raise the area, so his argument doesn't even hold water.

[Eyegasm]

Addington is a shit hole, it'll take more than a few bikes removed to raise the area, so his argument doesn't even hold water.

I can not comment on the state that addington is in but....

That has to be the best reply EVER!!!

[\m/]

It's a Honda, are you sure he is prejudiced against bikes and not homophobic?

[StoneY]

Mate its purely coz it's a Honda...............

I still sympathize and reckon you check who owns the carpark

If a Public Park and you are within the local parking bylaws etc, too bad stay put.

IF the carpark is part of the building lease and your boss pays the cost of leasing it....bugger your screwed

[imdying]

Give us the name of your business and manager, won't be hard to sort out, everybody has leverage that can be applied to them.

I've a stack of those red labels you see on condemnded buildings here locally. You tell that arsehole to retract his request or I'll come stick one on his building. If it's the landlord, tell him to shove it up his arse or I'll stick them on all the buildings he owns. Sure they'll come down relatively quickly, but it'll fuck him for a minimum of half a day at least.

[Flip]

Name and shame please?

I work near addington. It would give me an excuse to take the bike to work.

[Maha]

It's a Honda, are you sure he is prejudiced against bikes and not homophobic?

He might be both...:corn:


Mate its purely coz it's a Honda...............


Yeah and If it were me, I would take it to the Race Relations Concilliator.
Thats blatant Bike Racism.

[Mom]

Dont misquote me, I dont rate them at all.

Ahem! You best watch that mouth young man, or I will be forced to spank you :love:

[schrodingers cat]

Just say no and see what that brings.


Addington is a shit hole, it'll take more than a few bikes removed to raise the area, so his argument doesn't even hold water.

Yep. Lower it to what? Aranui or Wainoni? It still better than Linwood.
I guess your landlord has Fendalton aspirations

[Mom]

Yep. Lower it to what? Aranui or Wainoni? It still better than Linwood.
I guess your landlord has Fendalton aspirations

I heard the Fend ALL Town got a bit shaken and stirred recently.

[baptist]

I anyone turns up here on a Suzuki I ask them to put it in the garage so I can close the door.
Predudice? no, common decency

:laugh:


It's a Honda, are you sure he is prejudiced against bikes and not homophobic?

I am starting to feel sorry for Honda riders :(...:wait:... But I think I would make you move it as well:bleh:

Seriously though what a joke... a tidy bike verses tatty cars... let me think here, er yep, definately think the boss has "little man" syndrome...

[wysper]

Ahem! You best watch that mouth young man, or I will be forced to spank you :love:

Careful what you threaten Mom, I am pretty sure that is exactly what he wants!

[Mom]

Careful what you threaten Mom, I am pretty sure that is exactly what he wants!

:facepalm: :o :blip:

[Mom]

Ignore the bloke. Honestly, he has not a leg to stand on. Do secure your bike well, is there somewhere closer to you, you can sneak park it? Remember bikes are small.

Failing that, gather a heap of other bikers and get them to park around the area with you.

Deliver a passive, great big :motu: to him.

[bogan]

Speaking of prejudice, they didn't even include motorcycles in the campbell live commuter type comparison. Lucky some onto it fella wrote in to point that out :innocent:

[Old Steve]

My boss negotiated that his staff could use 3 parking spaces behind another building across a back lane from our building, in return for giving the manager of that business a dozen beer every couple of months. So two girls started parking their cars there and I started parked my motorbike. These are usually the only vehicles parked around his building, there are about 15 or more car park spaces. The girls never bought him any beer, I was the only one who bought a dozen every second month.

Then one day my boss says the guy has asked him to tell me not to park my motorbike there.

OK, I park in a little corner behind our building now ((bikes are easy to park in little nooks and crannies). I've got somehwere to park my bike, but now he goes thirsty. He's the one losing out. Dumb sh*t.

[Oblivion]

My boss negotiated that his staff could use 3 parking spaces behind another building across a back lane from our building, in return for giving the manager of that business a dozen beer every couple of months. So two girls started parking their cars there and I started parked my motorbike. These are usually the only vehicles parked around his building, there are about 15 or more car park spaces. The girls never bought him any beer, I was the only one who bought a dozen every second month.

Then one day my boss says the guy has asked him to tell me not to park my motorbike there.

OK, I park in a little corner behind our building now ((bikes are easy to park in little nooks and crannies). I've got somehwere to park my bike, but now he goes thirsty. He's the one losing out. Dumb sh*t.

Marketing Genius!!! Why the hell didn't I think of that? :facepalm:

[Elysium]

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[Oblivion]

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Somethings are impossible.

For everything else, there's Mastercard.

[Shadows]

Buy yourself a $300 shitbox car, spray paint it in dazzle pink and start bringing that to work instead.

[tigertim20]

keep parking it where it is.

if it comes up again, tell him that youll gladly move the bike, when EVERY car in the vicinity that is worth less than what you paid for the bike is ALSO told to fuck off.
politely of course.

Or for $500 Ill come tell him for you . . .

[cheshirecat]

Open a facebook page with a name similar to the landlord's co. Go round with some friends and do a video interview (stay polite and calm) on the Co's doorstep the post it on Youtube and send to to TVNZ or some other tv channel which doesnt understand research.
Oh set up a blog site looking like the landlords site and fill it with neg coments. Be care not to slander and keep it legal

[oldrider]

I believe all this prejudice is at the root of why motorcycles are involved in so many accidents versus other vehicles!

They don't see us because they don't "subconsciously" think we are legitimate, therefore we don't count!

The "motorbikes are an unnecessary nuisance" attitude is fostered right from the "top" echelon of society!

Until that "public attitude" is changed we will always be subjected to the prejudice complained of in this thread.

That is precisely why the government and ACC used us as the Judas sheep to launch their excessive levy campaign!

It was easy to convince the public that what they were doing had legitimacy and it worked for them!

They use the same tactics to drive the Tenure review for the removal of farmers from the high country and replace them with DOC parks! (pick the easy ones first and get it rolling the rest simply fall quietly into line)

We need to run a campaign reinforcing our position as: "legitimate, legal and necessary road users"!

If we want change, it is the public psyche that we have to change first.

To quote Robbie Burns: "Would that god the gift to give us, to see our selves as others see us"!

The public perception is the public reality, currently the public perception of motorcycles and motorcyclists is not where we want it to be or where it needs to be if we want due recognition!

The change has to begin with us, monkey see monkey do has been with us since the beginning of time!

We :ride: are quite possibly our own worst enemy! (Katman may have mentioned this occasionally)

Physician's, heal thy self. :yes:

[Gremlin]

I had something similar at a client's offices a while ago. The landlords of the building didn't like me parking out front on the entry.

Fair enough... now I park in the car parks instead. Good they are free eh? :woohoo: Parking is hard enough in the area, so hopefully I'm at least a tiny thorn in their side. There's a parking building just around the corner, with space for bikes/scooters, but that's hardly going to annoy them, is it?

[Oakie]

Just ask him why he thinks it lowers the profile of the area. Tell if if he can come up with a statistically supported reason you'll consider moving it.

otherwise ... no reason to move